Multiagent Systems 21CS742
Course Code: 21CS742
Credits: 03
CIE Marks: 50
SEE Marks: 50
Total Marks: 100
Exam Hours: 03
Total Hours of Pedagogy: 40H
Teaching Hours/Weeks: [L:T:P:S] 3:0:0:0
Multiagent Problem Formulation: Utility, Markov Decision Processes, Planning.
Distributed Constraints: Distributed Constraint Satisfaction, Distributed Constraint Optimization.
Standard and Extended Form Games: Games in Normal Form, Games in Extended Form, Self-interested agents, Characteristic Form Games, Coalition Formation.
Learning in Multiagent Systems: The Machine Learning Problem, Cooperative Learning, Repeated Games, Stochastic Games, General Theories for Learning Agents, Collective Intelligence.
Negotiation: The Bargaining Problem, Monotonic Concession Protocol, Negotiation as Distributed Search, Ad-hoc Negotiation Strategies, The Task Allocation Problem.
Protocols for Multiagent Resource Allocation: Auctions, Simple Auctions, Combinatorial Auctions
Voting and Mechanism Design: The Voting Problem, Mechanism Design. Nature-Inspired Approaches: Ants and Termites, Immune. System